"Surreal." I'm so sick of hearing anything mildly unusual being described as surreal. Ditto "insane."

One autumn recently, about one million snow geese which were migrating south had stopped to rest at a wildlife refuge near me. At about five pm, thousands of them would lift off in a great cloud, somehow knowing where to go and how to keep families together. It's hard to imagine wild animals doing anything more organized, but some tourist from New York commented to a reporter that it was "insane." Phooey.